My income in 1918 consisted of two items:

(§4) the salary of the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars.

Since the salary varied in amount during the year, I have instructed the Department of Affairs of the Council of People's Commissars to compile an extract from the books on the exact amount of the salary received for 1918. Enclosed herewith2.

(§ 5) Literary earnings: I received them from time to time in various sums from Vl[adimir] D[mitrievich] Bonch-Bruevich, the head of the Party publishing house and of the settlement with authors. Enclosed herewith is a certificate from the documents on the total amount received for 1918, certified by the appropriate signatures.

Addendum to § 4. An apartment was received in kind at the beginning of the year in Smolny (Petrograd), then, since the government moved to Moscow, in the Kremlin (Moscow), 4 rooms, a kitchen, a room for servants (a family of 3 people, plus 1 servant). The cost of the apartment at local prices is unknown to me.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

V. Ulyanov (Lenin).

Moscow. Kremlin. [September [20], 1919.

Published - "Pravda", № 60, April 20, 1995, p. 1

Fund 2, op. 1, d. 11186, l. 2 - autograph.

September 113, 1919. V.I.Lenin received an application form from the Moscow district income tax office to submit information on income in 1918. On the accompanying note to the form Lenin marked: "Received September 13, 1919. V. Ulyanov (Lenin)" (Lenin's Collection XXIV, p. 309). On the same day, Lenin forwarded the form to V.D.Bonch-Bruevich, head of the SNK, with a request to order extracts from the statements of salary and literary royalties in 1918. On the back of Lenin's note, N.K.Krupskaya asked Bonch-Bruevich to send a note about her royalties as well (ibid., pp. 309-310). The extracts have not been found.

Lenin's income in 1918 amounted to 24,683 rubles 33 kopecks and consisted of two items of income: the salary of the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR - 9683 rubles. 33 kopecks and Lenin's honoraria as a journalist - 15,000 rubles; about other incomes (from monetary capitals, immovable property, trade and trades and from rights to all kinds of periodic receipts and benefits) the answers in the application to the 1 Moscow district income tax office are negative ("no"). The statement was signed by Lenin on September 20, 1919 (RCCHIDNI, f. 2, op. 1, d. 11186, l. 1-2).

2The appendices in the RCCHIDNI are missing.